He never had it.
Who wants to bet they intentionally counted it as one person less because 10,000 cases looks and sounds really bad?
Or the reporting form doesnât support 5-figure numbers?
(I can picture the conversation with the designer/developer and whoever ordered it. âCome on, Bob - this is America, not some 3rd World shithole. Thereâs no way in hell that weâd ever run into numbers that high. Get real!â)
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In all seriousness, this wouldnât surprise me at all.
Also, if all the data would be managed by one Excel spreadsheet, with multiple people working on it, all by hand and without any versioning.
That there were no clear shut down plans generally was no surprise, since there were no clear open up plans, and such as they were, they were ignored.
This speaks to the microdroplet experiments done by the Japanese back inâŚMarch?
The mayor of Cleveland finally made masks mandatory.
âThe spike in coronavirus cases across the City of Cleveland warrants the mandated use of masks,â Jackson said in a statement. âIf Clevelanders do not heed these critical warnings and prevention efforts, the effects will be disastrous to the economy and, most importantly, to individuals and families. No one is immune to this virus.â (via cleveland.com)
But in Lakewood, the suburb that shares a western border with Cleveland, no one is masked, unless theyâre on their way to a small business that requires masks. Itâs really clear to see the split between YOLOYODO people and decent humans.
Or a way to show the covidiots that they should be masked, so they donât get it.
But they donât get it.
What we need is a really slick series of PDAs done by popular stars, written by health communication experts, and produced by advertising/marketing experts. If ads make us buy things we donât want or need, then why canât they manipulate people into doing right?
eta: this was supposed to be a general reply, not directed to @bryan. Sorry.
Yup, that actually does explain a few things, it does.
I donât think âflattening the curveâ is meant to indicate a diagonal line pointing ever upwards.
They should have suspected it back in March, and quickly investigated further.
Using high-definition cameras and laser lighting, NHK, Japanâs public broadcaster, conducted an experiment with a group of researchers to capture the movement of microdroplets â particles that are less than 100th of a millimetre in size.
100th of a millimetre is 10 microns, which is a giant boulder to a filter that is supposed to block stuff 0.3 micron size.
So what happens when those huge microdroplets containing the virus hit a mask, even a non-N95 one?
This from The Montreal Gazette back in March:
Coronavirus: Why masks donât work
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/coronavirus-why-masks-dont-work/ar-BB11nxm9
Near the end of the article are several bulleted take-aways. Again, this article is from March and very likely should be augmented with the latest info from health care professionals.
The problem is not so much what happens when the droplets hit the mask, as how likely they are to go around the mask. Remember the pictures of the bruised faces of medical staff after wearing N95âs all day? We get fit for tight like in airtight, seal. This forces the droplets to hit the mask, which traps them. I have yet to see the general public look like that post mask. If the air can go around the mask, then the filter factor doesnât matter. Again, itâs about preventing the mask wearer from infecting others, not protecting the wearer. As far as âonly wear it if you are sick,â you canât tell if you are sick. That is terrible advice. âPeople donât do it perfectly, so might as well not botherâ is surrender. (Granted, that aeticle was from March, and things have evolved some since then.)
The thing I would add is that even if the fit isnât perfect or the material isnât the most dense, wearing ANY mask at least means a smaller viral load gets through.
The Hunan bus study was retracted on March 10.
(ETA: for example, https://www.inkstonenews.com/health/medical-journal-retracts-study-how-far-coronavirus-can-spread-through-droplets/article/3074449)
Did they ever explain why?
It didnât seem to be drawing any dodgy medical conclusions, just reporting on the results of Chinese state surveillance and contact tracing, allowing them to retroactively turn an incident into a science experiment.
